After recognizing six exceptional California teachers as finalists through the Golden Owl Award, the California FFA Foundation, in partnership with Nationwide and the California Farm Bureau, selected Jason Ferreira, agricultural teacher at Hanford High School, as California’s 2022-2023 “Ag Educator of the Year.” Ferreira was formally recognized as the Golden Owl Award grand prize winner […]
Months of heavy rainfall and subsequent flooding have dealt a new financial blow to California farmers as they come out of a multiyear drought that had them fallowing land and plowing under crops due to water shortages. They now face flooded fields, waterlogged plants, crop delays and property damage. From dairies and orchards in the […]
World Ag Expo® served up more than 70 educational seminars in 2023, and they will be available online by the end of March. Sessions on dairy and livestock, international trade, ag tech, and more are being made available for free at https://bit.ly/WAE23VideosOnDemand. To access the agriculture content, viewers will need to log in with their […]
Today, the Board of Directors of Westlands Water District (District) named Allison Febbo as the next General Manager. With nearly 25 years of experience in natural resources, hydrology, and water operations, Ms. Febbo will be the first woman to serve the District as General Manager. “We are thrilled to welcome Allison Febbo to the Westlands […]
We congratulate the outstanding student artists in this year’s Farm Bureau Calendar Art Contest! An awards ceremony was held with the Tulare County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, March 21, at 9:00 am during National Agriculture Week, in the Tulare County Board of Supervisor’s Chambers, for the first time in-person since 2019. Students received cash […]
The California Farm Bureau today joined various California counties and forestry and wood products organizations in filing a legal brief seeking to intervene in defense of the U.S. Forest Service’s use of a critical retardant used in wildfire suppression. The Farm Bureau’s decision to intervene in the case is in response to litigation challenging the […]
As the No. 1 agricultural state, with a $51.1 billion farm economy and more than 400 commodities, California and its government leaders, farmers and residents are weighing in on how members of Congress should shape the 2023 Farm Bill. During a state Senate Agriculture Committee hearing last week, Sen. Melissa Hurtado, the committee chair, said […]
Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc., the nation’s second-largest pistachio grower and processor, is expanding their line of premium pistachios by opening a fully dedicated USDA organic-certified facility, Setton Organic, LLC. Located in Ducor, California just five miles south of the main processing plant, Setton’s outstanding quality products will now include SKUs in the rapidly […]
Winter storms that bolstered the Sierra Nevada snowpack and added to California reservoirs prompted federal and state water managers to announce increases in anticipated water allocations for the 2023 growing season. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation last week announced an initial allocation of 35% of contracted water supplies for agricultural customers south of the Sacramento-San […]
Farmers love to talk about the weather, and those attending the World Ag Expo in Tulare last week were no different. A Canadian cold front forced growers, exhibitors and students alike to bundle up against windy conditions, but it didn’t freeze their enthusiasm for the largest agriculture equipment show in the world. Framed by a […]